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January 23, 1945

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MEAD SAYS LOAFING AND WASTE BESET NORFOLK NAVY YARD; He Tells Senate Surprise Visit Showed Men Sitting Around or Working on Trinkets PROSECUTIONS PROPOSED Walsh Pledges His Aid--Navy Issues Defense--National Service Plan Is Hit Mead Hits War 'Loafing' Made Unannounced Visit MEAD DENOUNCES NAVY YARD 'WASTE' Model Village" Built Data on Another Navy Yard Conditions "Almost Treason"

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Sens Mead and Ferguson describe excess manpower, hoarded labor, enforced loafing and other conditions found in Sen (Mead) War Investigating Com Norfolk visits, Sen; Sen Walsh urges investigation of officials; Navy Dept again cites '44 record

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Notable Births

Mike Harris

1945Mike Harris, Canadian politician, 22nd Premier of Ontario[†]

Michael Deane Harris is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 22nd premier of Ontario from 1995 to 2002 and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario from 1990 to 2002. Taking the PC Party to the right, he is noted for the "Common Sense Revolution", his government's program of fiscally conservative policies.

Historical Events

Karl Dönitz

1945World War II: German admiral Karl Dönitz launches Operation Hannibal.[†]

Karl Dönitz was a German grand admiral and convicted war criminal who, following Adolf Hitler's suicide, succeeded him as head of state of Nazi Germany during the Second World War in April 1945. He held the position until the dissolution of the Flensburg Government following Germany's unconditional surrender to the Allies weeks later. As Supreme Commander of the Navy beginning in 1943, he played a major role in the naval history of the war.